Weekly-ish Updates – Progress Makes a PhD

Advisor 1v1: February 11, 2026

1v1

MS Proposal

Sundays are for Seahawks & spending time with your favorite bivalve

Testing Mytilus response to resazurin assays

Following the established protocols of the Resazurin Assay (Huffmyer et al., 2025), I modified the assay to support a trial run for Mytilus trossulus. This work had two goals:

Week 1 of 52: Weekly Wrap Up Templates

I’ve decided to stage some templates for my daily and weekly notebook posts to make it easier to pull my notes from Notion together into something cohesive. Below is the…

Epigenetics: A Playbook for Marine Survival

The primary goal of this communication project was to make the complexity of marine epigenetics accessible, engaging, and relatable to a non-expert audience. My intended…

Epigenetics: A Playbook for Marine Survival

How Marine Organisms Run the Ultimate Game Plan

If you’ve ever met me, you know I’m a sports girl. A true-blue (purple), tried and true sports fan. I ride for my Baltimore Ravens, I will alter the weather for my Seattle…

Weekly Advisor Meeting

1v1

Today’s goal is to recap what I’ve been up to for the last 2 weeks and work through the validation chapter

Weekly Advisor Meeting

1v1

Today’s Meeting is all about mussel reproduction, environmentally induced sex determinants and whatever is up with maternal and paternal mtDNA… cool stuff.

Epigenetics & Ecotoxicology

Exploring Epigenetics as a Tool for Ecotoxicological Work

FISH 510 | October 2025 | Chris Mantegna

Weekly Advisor Meeting

1v1

Today’s goal is to recap last week’s committee meeting and review the scaffolding for re-working the PhD proposal.

Introduction to Notion

productivity tools

Notion has been a management and organization tool that I have been using on and off for the last 6 years, and finally this year I have hit my stride with the platform. This…

October Committee Meeting

committee meeting

Overview of work to date

Weekly Adviser Meeting

1v1

The goal today is to work through building my committee meeting presentation and ending with a recap of activities from the week.

October Goals

biomarkers

bypass package

committee meeting

I have one overarching goal this month and that is to complete the draft of my bypass package and get it to my committee for review by the close of business on October 31st.

Weekly Adviser Meeting

1v1

Agenda for 09.25.2025 Meeting

Kenya 2025

I had the great fortune of collaborating with the University of Minnesota (UMN) and the National Museums of Kenya (KMN) in July and August to conduct field work that…